Our community photographs collection includes selected photos of schools, churches,
parks, and other public buildings, areas and events. We are constantly adding
to our collection, and welcome your suggestions.

InfoPEI is a useful compendium of facts, addresses, pointers to
businesses, governments and organizations and other reference information. To see InfoPEI
information on Cavendish, select a category and click GO.

Cavendish falls inside the Statistics Canada
census subdivision of Resort Municipality. They have detailed statistical information available
for the Resort Municipality census subdivision for the following categories:
Education,Ethnicity,Family,Income,Labour Force,Population, and Shelter.

The official history of the geographic name Cavendish (which can
be somewhat technical, we admit):

Cavendish (Sett.) was adopted in Place Names of PEI, 1925. Confirmed 12 December 1939 on 11L/6.Name changed to Cavendish (Green Gables P.O.) (Sett.) 2 April 1 953 on 11L/6.Status changed to Locality 23 October 1989 on 203-8. William Winter, an ex-army officer, named his residence in honour of his patron, one of the Cavendishes, probably Field Marshal Lord Frederick Cavendish, colone l of the 34th Foot. (Place Names of PEI, 1925.)

This information has been taken from the website: PlaceFinder URL: http://www.gov.pe.ca/placefinder/index.php3?cgndb=BAAQT&formattype=&city=Cavendish

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